[sword-devel] Windows Builds

[Greg Hellings]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:41 PM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:

> From a command window in the Sword path, I just tried *utils64\diatheke
> /?* and got the following message:
>
> [image: Screenshot 2018-01-30 21.33.04.png]
>
> FWIW, there is a DLL file with that name "libwinpthread-1.dll" installed
> with Xiphos.
>

Sorry for the delay. I've added libwinpthread-1.dll and re-uploaded the Zip
files. Can you give it another go?

--Greg


>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
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> -------- Original Message --------
> On 30 January 2018 5:15 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:11 AM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Greg,
>>
>> I just downloaded *sword-utils-1.8.1-x86_64-release.zip* and created a
>> symbolic link under my *sword path* to the extracted folder.
>>
>> It may be a while before I chance to try any of the utilities.
>>
>
> Could you at least try to invoke one of them, so we know if there are any
> missing DLLs?
>
>
>>
>>
>> Are there any notes on what's different between the *x32* and *x64*
>> builds ?
>>
>
> One is for x32 architectures the other for x64.
>
> --Greg
>
>>
>>
>> cf. My PC has Windows 7 x64.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David
>>
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>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> On 30 January 2018 2:52 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have made a first pass at building the Windows version of the Sword
>> utilities. You can find the resulting builds for 1.8.1 here:
>> http://dl.thehellings.com/sword-utils/ as per usual.
>>
>> These are not officially supported or endorsed by CrossWire. I create
>> them of my own volition and not in my capacity as the release manager here.
>> They are simply zipped versions of the files I build from the Fedora MinGW
>> packages.
>>
>> I haven't a Windows machine up and running today to test them out. These
>> packages include the latest versions of all the files that were part of the
>> 1.7.4 release bundle. However, since much time has passed since then, it
>> would not surprise me if there are DLL files that have been added to the
>> dependency tree since then. If you encounter issues with executing the
>> files, please give me a holler and I'll see if there's an obvious solution.
>>
>> For those who are interested, and since I now automate everything I
>> reasonably can manage to automate, you can see the scripts I use to build
>> these files at https://github.com/greg-hellings/config. If you have
>> Vagrant and Ansible installed on your local system, you can build the same
>> results by opening the vagrant/mingw_sword_package folder from that
>> repository and issuing the command "vagrant up". This should be do-able by
>> anyone on any host. Doing so will bring up a guest Fedora 27 system,
>> install the latest test version of the MinGW Sword package, package the
>> results, and create a zip folder in the root of your current directory
>> alongside the Vagrantfile.
>>
>> Please feel free to ask questions or chastise me if something is amiss.
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>>
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